This blog is a result of the heavy censoring of the media by the military dictatorship regime.

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

New Fiji film studio prompts revisit of story of minister who ran off with government-owned furniture

MOVIE MAKERS IN LAHLAH LAND: But will the real Ganesh Chand movie ever be made?

The regime supporter, Ganesh Chand (left), is boasting his Fiji National University now has the largest film and TV studio in the South Pacific Region.

But would the university founder be happy to have students make a movie at his new $500,000 state-of-the-art film studio about a former housing, environment and national planning minister accused of stealing government-owned furniture and other household items?

In 2006, the Fiji Times and reporter Margaret Wise, revealed that a former minister had stripped a government house in Richards Road, Suva, of all household furniture, including air conditioning system, washing machine, stove and refrigerator.

The minister was named as Ganesh Chand, who had been living in the house but who was vacating it to return to Lautoka. The PSC quarter clerk had inspected the house (which was being prepared for new occupant Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara who was making room at his previous residence for the new president, Ratu Josefa Iloilo) and reported to the police that items were missing. From there, came the Fiji Times story Chand Faces Theft Probe.

Bloggers might recall, too, that Chand and fellow talking head Mahendra Reddy caused an academic coup earlier this year with the closure of the TPAF National Organization for Technical and Vocational Training and Streamlining.

Critics say Chand and Reddy manipulated the FNU board, whose sitting members are all the Permanent Secretaries and the Minister of Education, to transfer $3million from TPAF coffers to set up the Fiji Employment Centre, an organization the duo proposed to sustain the rising unemployment in Fiji.

It's maintained the Chand/Reddy idea was just a cut and paste programme of the work TPAF (which is recognized by institutions in Australia and other parts of the world), had been doing. In pulling off the coup, the pair also managed to get more than 20 million dollars in TPAF funds transferred to under Chand's control, along with the one per cent TPAF collects from all employers in Fiji.

Lights, Camera and Action !I have a Screen Play ready for Production.It's called " coup coup land " and stars a demented tottering, blubbering idiot as the Military Commander of the local Army !It's Soldiers consist of sissies, incapable for standing up for what is Just and Right, too scared of their own shadows. Boo !An illegally self appointed Attorney General, played by a Narcissistic, Taliban leader who wears pretty suits.

Ganesh Chand's lawyer was Mishra-the one who was fined with Dr Sahu Khan who has run away and hiding in NZ.Ganesh is a coup apologist-like Dr Satendra Nandan-was nobody in Canberra-so returns to Fiji-writes stupid silly cheap good for nothing bullshit books without any regard for the trees he is destroying.Nobody reads his books-mostly crap---ask Dr Brij Lal or any market vendor for that matter.Jai Ganesh.Jai Sri Yukt Nandan--the miser-the kanjoos.

Do Army Officers read this blog? Let them see in broad daylight what they have done to Fiji, the people of Fiji and especially the Fijian people to which most them supposedly belong. They have been hoodwinked (lawakitaki) by Ganesh Chand and Sayed-Khayum and other prominent Indo-Fijians so called, to destroy our land and our people. Ni bau yadra mada mai na nomuni mocelutu tatadra, moni raica na vakaloloma levu oni sa vakavuna tu vei keimami. Oni sa vakamaduataka na yaca rogo vinaka ni Mataivalu ni Viti.

Ganesh Chand’s FNU Studio does not make sense if it is meant for Fiji. We do not have the talents to make successful movies or TV series. Fiji is not a Philipine or a China or a India or Mexico, which has storytellers, film makers, dancers, actors and actresses, musicians and generally the talents to be successful in making major film-making. I watch Phillipine, English and Hindi movies and am always impressed with talents in India for instance. Seeing that I realise that Fiji Indians simply have no talents whatsoever, in any of the human resources needed in filmmaking (that is apart from the accounting of course. Fijians have not as yet been introduced to film-acting so what is the studio for, I ask? I suspect to get Bollywood to come and make film in Fiji at our Government’s expenses for the Indian Film Industry. Wherever money can be made you will see these Indo-Fijians at work.

Catch on fast people. Do not allow these people to get away. Enough is Enough. Sa gauna me vuki kina na uto.

Fiji Employers are numb (and dumb too) – why are they allowing (by keeping quiet) the 1% Training Levy to be used by one Training Institution only (FNU) when it should be available to all Training Institutions in Fiji. The Training Levy is estimated at about $17million per annum. That is a lot of money (public funds) Shoot this people down

There has to be an international law that David Pfliger of Air Pacific, can be prosecuted for being the brain trust and sponsor of the Essential National Industries. He needs to be reported to the American Embassy in Suva for meddling in the internal affairs of a sovereign nation. Pfliger's actions are illegal and ILO needs to haul him in before he destroys Air Pacific and Fijian tourism. I call on the tourism stakeholders to lobby government for his deportation. He is destroying Fiji's remaining business - tourism!

Ganesh Chand was a summer school economics lecturer at Lautoka USP center when he gave a clerk at FSC an A+ because this clerk (a student), was mixing his kava and also ensuring that there is heaps of chaiser during the class sessions.

Former students at USP know all this...please guys speak up now...we need to get rid of this fake academic and his croonies.

"Like giving Bainimarama some home brew and the keys to your Nissan Pathfinder."

"Like hiring Graham Davis to be your lecturer in media ethics."

“Like asking Chaudhry to guard 1.5 million dollars."

“Like asking Felix Anthony to tell another story apart from being bashed up.”

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The unfairness of it all

Fiji TV Saga: Proof of Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum's involvement

Proof of Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum's involvement in the sacking of two Fiji TV executives continues to be revealed. Here is a text he sent to Nouzab Fareed, the executive director of Fiji TV, who then forwarded it to Tanya Waqanika.

Unwise Quotes

January 22, 2015

Dr Mahendra Reddy speaking on the removal of the scaling of marks system "Of the last 40 years a major problem has arisen ...if you look at the raw scores mean marks have been declined. "

Nice English Education Minister. Pong!

January 14, 2015

Frank Bainimarama while opening a girl's domitory in Taveuni "Today there is no excuse for our children not to reach the tertiary level, the changes to our education system is the biggest achievement for this government in the history of Fiji."

Yet just days ago, it was revealed that the FSLC pass rates for 2015 has dropped to 66.4% compared to 75% in 2013. In fact the pass rates has dropped dramatically since the 'historic' changes to the education system. Pong!

Veena Batnaghar speaking on the 'free' medication scheme "Apparently there is a ...committee looking after this part of work."

Apparently? Do you know for sure or not Assistant Minister for Health. Pong!

What Bainimarama and Khaiyum have done:

1. Removed the GCC

2. Removed the Bose Levu Vakaturaga

3. Removed the history of Ratu Sukuna

5. Made a Constitution that was not put to Referendum for the people to add, delete or give an opinion

8. Allowed Muslims to take up all strategic positions in Fiji

9. The blatant misuse of public funds

10. The Matua Taxi advertisement of Fiji First Party etc.

11. The delegation to the UN, we see no Indigenous Fijian significantly involved

12.The continued psychological tormentation by Bainimarama on the citizens of Fiji: "You did not vote for me, I will not look after you" syndrome